Domain disk space left - accurate?

troff · 05-31-2002, 06:24 AM

Funny. My local harddisk server root is only 19 megabytes but i get a email message from hostnexus:

Problem domains for client:

Domain name: mydomain.com
Disk usage: 31891919
Disk space limit: 31457280
Traffic: 4445188
Traffic limit: 2621440000

It says I'm using 30 megs plus! Any way of checking the disk space left by yourself?

Thanks in advance.

Conqueror · 05-31-2002, 07:55 AM

Is it because of the logs of your web site?
because all i know, logs took a lot of space..

troff · 05-31-2002, 08:06 AM

Nope it looks like my log directory is just 300k in size. The error log directory is 11k only so it can't be the logs.

Thanks for the try though!

BlueOrb · 05-31-2002, 08:32 AM

300k? How nice. My access_log went up to 40+ MB not too long ago.

troff · 05-31-2002, 08:50 AM

So actually what is the normal procedure for log files that hit that size? Delete them? Or backup then delete?

My domains only 5 days old so 5 days = 300k, in a few months it'll be 40 megs like yours too!

BlueOrb · 05-31-2002, 08:59 AM

That was only for 1 week. I've set the log file to be deleted weekly. Because of the sheer size of the log file, I went to look at what was contributing to it and found the cause. Now it's 10MB+ in about 5 days...

Martha · 05-31-2002, 12:54 PM

Where do you find that info? Log size, etc...?

Also, where do you set it to delete weekly?

What could happen if you don't back it up before you delete it?

BlueOrb · 05-31-2002, 06:22 PM

To see the size of the log file, you can use FTP and go to the logs directory. All the logs will be there. My largest file is access_log, which I guess should usually be the largest file...

To set it to delete weekly, monthly, or never, go to your Plesk control panel, click on the domain (not for subdomains) you want to set, select Hosting, click Next, and choose your option under "Delete Apache Log Files".

As for what happen if you don't back it up, nothing would happen except you lose the information. It's just a log file, so your account won't go haywire or anything.

I seemed to have come across posts mentioning about Webalizer stats being started. Can't recall whether it is due to this deletion of logs, or log rotation (which I hardly know anything about). Didn't care much about it since I don't look at the Webalizer stats anyway.